They laid off another HUGE number of people today (we're now at less than half the number of employees we were at two months ago ( Read more... )

I'd like to take this opportunity to speak for California; I'm really sorry about giving the rest of the country E. coli. My bad.

Wow, 130 people got laid off at my job today. Heads rolled, and neither me or my wife were one of them, thankfully. Pretty scary, though. Working at this job, 8-5, M-F, 5 days a week for the last two years has made it kind of like school. I'm not there just to socialize with the other people, but you get used to being around the same people ( Read more... )

I'm in one of those helpless creative moods. I want to DO something. I've e-mailed people about creating a cartoon (I watch entirely too much Adult Swim), I've talked to a buddy of mine who, in his 20's, plays Magic: The Gathering (takes it REALLY seriously, like judges tournaments and shit) about creating our own card game, I'm thinking about ( Read more... )

Man, SOAP was one of the most satisfying movies I've seen in a long damn time.

Seriously, I can't remember the last time I saw a movie in the theater that didn't make me wish I'd spend my $9 somewhere else.

So yesterday was my one year wedding anniversary. I sent her flowers at work and bought her a new journal (it's the paper anniversary, I shit you not), she got me a watch. We went to the park where we were married and watched the ocean for a while before going to dinner at the same place we had our reception. It's a little french place in the ( Read more... )

"Sub-prime" is the term the mortgage industry uses to describe any borrower who is below a "prime" borrower, "prime" meaning the borrower has a sufficient mortgage payment history, debt-to-income ratio, and credit rating. That's fucked up. "Sub-prime"? For some reason that seems fucked up to me. Everyone who's not perfect is "sub-prime ( Read more... )

Just testing my LiveWidget

IT'S SO FUCKING MISERABLE!!!! One of the A/C units at work went down and the power went out for a little bit. The CA heat wave is being blamed for MySpace being down, the surge in theater attendance over the weekend, and my ass-itch (my sac and thigh have achieved one-ness ( Read more... )

I finally got some artwork up on the walls in the den in our new place, and Stephen just shot this great waterfall that he's going to make us a print of to hang above the couch in the living room (it's awesome and tall, he had to take multiple photo's a "stitch" the negatives together or whatever ( Read more... )